Territory



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NOAH CICERO MCCOXVN, OF BEAVER, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

GREEN-CORN CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 564,832, dated July 28, 1896. Application fil d July 10, 1894. Serial No. 517,125. (No model.)

To [0Z6 whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, NOAH CICERO MoGowN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beaver, in the county of Beaver and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Green-Corn Gutter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to green-corn cutters,

and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted for cutting the grains and extracting the kernels therefrom either prior or subsequent to boiling, the blade being of such construction, including points or spurs for ripping the grains, that it may be struck from a single fiat blank of sheet metal, the only subsequent operation in the manufacture of the device being the application of suitable handle-sections to form a grip.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cutter constructed in accordance with my invention. gitudinal section of the same.- Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the handle, taken in the plane of one of the rivets. View of the blade and integral tang.

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-' responding parts in all the figures of the d rawings.

The blade 1 is substantially oblong in construction, with the sides 3 and 5 thereof concaved, whereby in scraping an ear of corn a larger area of the surface of the latter will be engaged than with a straight edge. The edge 3 is provided with a plurality of independent spurs or spear-pointed teeth 6, spaced apart to correspond approximately with the intervals between the rows of grains on an ear and adapted to cut the sacks of the grains and release the kernels. In making these spurs or teeth 6 1 preferably taper them toward their outer ends or points, but the inner ends or bases thereof are separated or independent of each other to avoid forming a continuous cutting edge, which would not only open, but detach the sacks in which the kernels are contained. These spurs or teeth Fig. 2 is a central lon- Fig. 4 is a plan are, however, struck from the same plate or sheet with the body portion of the blade.

The opposite side edge 5 of the blade is blunt or smooth to scrape the kernels out of the sacks without detaching the sacks from the cob. The outer end 4 of the blade is provided with a concave smooth edge to serve a similar purpose to that described in connection with the edge 5 when lit is found more convenient to employ an end than the side edge of the blade.

Integral with and preferably struck from the same sheet of metal as the blade is an extension or tang 2, arranged in the same plane with the blade, in alinement with the longitudinal center thereof, and disposed upon opposite sides of the plane of said tang are the handle-sections 8, provided in common with the tang 2 with perforations 6 for the reception of the transverse rivets 7. The shoulders at the inner end of the blade, or the end opposite to the edge 4, are preferably abrupt or perpendicular to the longitudinal center of the blade and tang, and the inner or contiguous ends of the handle-sections 8 extend beyond said abrupt shoulders and bear against the opposite surfaces of the blade 1 to strengthen the point of junction between the blade and the tang to prevent fracture when the device is strained.

The objects in arranging the blade in a common plane with the tang to which the handle-sections are attached with itslongitudinal center in alinement with that of the tang are, first, that the construct-ion is simplified, in that said parts may be struck from the same sheet of metal; second, that the. V handlersections may be employed to strengthen the connection between the tang and the blade; and, third, that the device may be more easily manipulated, the latterbeing true sirable to cut close-to the lower end of the ear,and hence close to theplane of the'table- I r or support. The lateral extensions or, cars which form the shoulders at the inner end of the blade also serve as finger-rests for the thumb of the hand which grasps the handle.

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This enables the operator to push firmly' of greater length than the same to extend inward over and bear against opposite side surfaces of the blade, whereby the latter is braced against lateral strain and fracture contigu ous to said shoulders, the blade having concaved 'end and side edges, of which one side edge is provided with independent or separate teeth 6, set apart or spaced to form intervals, and the teeth being narrow and tapered toward their outer extremities, whereas the remaining side edge and the outer end edge are smooth, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

NOAH OICERO MCCOVVN. WVitnesses: I

DYKER BALLINGER, O. J. LORFBONNON. 

